1[76. Special Provisions regarding sentences. Where a person subject to this Act is sentenced
to amputation of hand, foot or both, imprisonment for life, imprisonment or whipping, the court shall
also sentence such person to be dismissed from the service :
Provided that the sentence of dismissal from the service may not be combined with a sentence of
imprisonment not exceeding three months awarded to a person below the rank of a warrant officer
which is to be undergone in Air Force custody.].
77. Field Punishment.___(1) Where any person subject to this Act and under the rank of warrant
officer commits any offence on active service, it shall be lawful for a court‑martial to award for that
offence any such punishment as is prescribed as a field punishment.
(2) Field punishment shall be of the character of personal restraint or of hard labour but shall not
be of a nature to cause injury to life or limb and shall not include flogging.
78. Position of field punishment in scale of punishments. Field punishment shall for the purpose
of commutation, be deemed to stand next below dismissal in the scale of punishments specified in
section 73.
2[79. Result of certain punishment in the case of a non‑commissioned Officer. A non
commissioned officer sentenced by a courtmartial to amputation of hand or foot or both,
imprisonment for life, imprisonment, dismissal from service, detention or field punishment shall be
deemed to be reduced to the ranks.].
80. Retention in the ranks of a person convicted on active service. When, on active service
any enrolled person has been sentenced by a court‑martial to dismissal or to imprisonment or
detention, whether combined with dismissal or not, the prescribed officer may direct that such person
maybe retained to serve in the ranks and such service, shall be reckoned as part of his term of
imprisonment or detention, if any.
1 Section 76 which was previously subs. by Act 6 of 1967, s. 12 has been subs. by the Pakistan Air Force (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1984 (38 of 1984), s. 8.
2 Subs. ibid., s. 9.
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